Ending an Endless Loop

Question

          while (! source.nextTokenIs('}'))
               dec = new ClassMemberDeclaration();         
               dec.compile(source);
          }basically this question is regarding the above loop. This is a while loop that is looking for curly braces (i.e. } ) . But if there are no curly braces of that kind in the file that i am reading then this while loop becomes an endless loop. hence is there any way of timing this method, and after certain time (say 20 seconds the while loop is aborted and a message is displayed saying that the closing curly brace was not found????
please ignore the body of the method as it was just put there so that you could understand what i was on about.
please do reply, thank you
best regards
alpha

Answer 1

Endless loop? See this thread: http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=31&thread=531136&tstart=0&trange=15